Generator-commutator cleaner



Dec. 15 1925- H. P. NORTON GENERATOR COMMUTATOR CLEANER Filed A ril 4..1925 w M H 5 y O o -4 02 H A a d J gnmntoz HaRBERT P. NORTON.

PatentedlDeq-IS, 1925. I 1,566,164

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Application filed April 4, 1925. Serial mi. 20,708.

To all whom it may concern: 13 may be directed. The free end of the Beit known that I, HERBERT P. NORTON, strip 16 is bent outwardly, asindicated at 55 a citizen of the United States, residing at 19, and thendown in closely spaced rela- Pierpont, in the county of Ashtabula andtion to the strip 16, as indicated at 20, just State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and sufiicient space being provided between theuseful Improvements in Generator-Commuportion 20 and the strip 16 toadmit of the tator Cleaners. of which the following is end. of the strip13 being slipped thercbe- 60 a specification, reference being had to thetween. accompanying drawings. In the use of the device, the face of theI This invention relates to generator conistrip 13 lying between theends of the guide 'mutator cleaners and has for an important strips15,16 is forced against the commuobject thereof the provision of adevice of tator face while the generator is in opera- 65 this characterprimarily intended for use tion, cleaning the same in the usual manner.in cleaning the generator commutators of The strip being unbackedbetween the supautomobile ignition systems. ports formed at 17-and 19may conform to A further object of the invention is to the shaping ofcommutators of different diprovide a device of-this character which isameters. The frame 10 is preferably formed 70 of small size and may bereadily stored in 'of insulating material. When the strip bea tool boxand which includes means for comes worn, it is further withdrawn from 20storing a strip of sandpaper and guiding the spool until a fresh surfaceis exposed beand holding the same while the. device is tween thesupports 17, 19, and the end porbeing employed for cleaning thecommutation torn off so that just sufficient length is 75 tor. p v leftto insert this end between 'the strip 16 A further object of theinvention is to and the reverted portion 20 thereof.

provide a device of this character which-may It will be obvious that thestructure here- -be very cheaply and readily produced. inbefore setforth is capable of a certain Theseand other object-s I attain by therange change and modification without maconstruction shown in theaccompanying terially departing from the spirit of my indrawings,wherein for the purpose of illusvention and I accordingly do not limitmy tration is shown a preferred embodiment of self to such specificstructure'except as heremy invention and wherein inafter claimed. I 1

. Figure 1 is a plan of a generatorcommu- I claim:

'tator cleaner constructed in accordancewith In a commutator cleaner, aframe formed my invention and I at, one end to provide a handle andhaving Figure 2 is a longitudi-nal sectionalview at its opposite sidesthereof a pair of exther'ethrough taken on the line-22 of Fig tendedguide strips, the outer end pf one of ure 1. p said guide strips beinginbent, the outer end Referring now mor particularly'toj th of the other,guide strip being outwardly drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a framevbent and rt d in closely sp d Pela- 40 formed centrally to provide anopening 11 n t0 the guide s ip, the f m b ing hroueh Through the sideedges of formed intermediate the ends thereof with the frame a bolt orother suitable pivot, an pening housing a coil of stripped sandasindicated'at 12. is directed through this paper, the end of the strip ofsandpaper beopening and provides a means for supportmg passed about theends of said supporting a roll 13 of sandpaper. One end f th ing stripsand engaged betweerfsaid reverted frame is formed to provide a handle 14portion and the strip to which it is attached, while the opposite endthereof has secured the first named supporting strip b e ing prn atopposite faces thereof apair of outstandvided at spaced vpoints withguide loops in guide strips 15 and 16. V through which the sandpaperstrip is dillheguide stri -16 has its free end turned rected. flinwardly, asat 1 and is provided at spaced In testimony whereof Ihereunto afiix my points along its length with guide loops signature. v18 through which the strip 13 from the roll j -IER BERT P. NORTON. V

